Summer Reads |
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 | Abrams, Peter |
| Down the Rabbit Hole |
| Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls. |
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 | Asher, Jay |
| Thirteen Reasons Why |
| When Clay plays the tapes he hears a voice from beyond the grave: “I’m about to tell you why my life ended. And if you’re listening to these tapes, you’re one of the reasons why.” |
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 | Benway, Audrey |
| Audrey, Wait! |
| While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker, sixteen-year-old Audrey gains unwanted celebrity status when her ex-boyfriend records a breakup song about her that soars to the top of the Billboard charts. |
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 | Carroll, Michael |
| The Awakening |
| A decade ago the world’s superheroes disappeared. Now a new generation is about to discover that superpowers may be more trouble than they’re worth and that sometimes it’s hard to tell the heroes from the villains. |
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 | Cashore, Kristin |
| Graceling |
| Katsa’s uncle, corrupt King Randa, uses and abuses her Grace—the special ability that sets her apart from other gifted individuals, the gift that allows her to kill. |
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 | Collins, Suzanne |
| The Hunger Games |
| In the future, reality TV takes a turn for the deadly. Winning the hunger games isn’t a matter of fame and fortune, it’s a matter of life and death. |
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 | Cooney, Caroline |
| Wanted! |
| When her father is murdered and the police obtain an e-mail confession that implicates her, Alice Robie realizes she will have to flee and prove her innocence. |
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 | Cornish, D. M. |
| Foundling |
| A young orphan boy with the unfortunate name of Rossamünd finds his new position as an apprentice lamplighter is fraught with danger,intrigue... and monsters. |
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 | Dobkin, Bonnie |
| Neptune’s Children |
| The bio-weapon killed the adult population in mere hours, trapping thousands of would-be vacationing children and teens in what was supposed to be the world’s premier theme park. |
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 | Dowd, Siobhan |
| The London Eye Mystery |
| Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off- except Salim. Where could he have gone? |
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 | Falkner, Brian |
| The Tomorrow Code |
| Two New Zealand teenagers receive a desperate SOS from their future selves and set out on a quest to stop an impending ecological disaster that could mean the end of humanity. |
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 | Flanagan, John |
| The Ruins of Gorlan |
| When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battle school, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger. |
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 | Headley, Justina Chen |
| North of Beautiful |
| Terra, a sensitive, artistic high schooler born with a facial port-wine stain, struggles with issues of inner and outer beauty with the help of her Goth classmate Jacob. |
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 | Jinks, Catherine |
| The Reformed Vampire Support Group |
| When one of the members of Nina’s deadly dull support group for the living impaired is staked by a would-be vampire slayer, the blood-drinkers turn detective. |
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 | Jones, Diana Wynne |
| The House of Many Ways |
| House-sitting for a wizard isn’t the relaxing summer job Charmain bargained for. When a wrong turn can take you anywhere in space or time, disaster is just a door away. |
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 | Lockhart, E. |
| The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks |
| The anonymous mastermind behind a series of pranks, Frankie’s bound and determined to prove she’s not just another pretty face. |
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 | Morton-Shaw, Christine |
| The Hunt for the Seventh |
| Jim and his family aren’t alone at historic Minerva Hall—ghostly footsteps pace behind locked doors and the ghosts of six children haunt the grounds, urging Jim to “Find the Seventh!” |
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 | Pearson, Mary |
| The Adoration of Jenna Fox |
| Jenna Fox has just woken from a year-long coma. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn’t remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers? |
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 | Pfeffer, Susan Beth |
| Life As We Knew It |
| Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family’s struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions |
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 | Prineas, Sarah |
| The Magic Thief |
| Conn picks the wrong pocket and finds himself apprenticed to a wizard in a city rapidly and mysteriously being drained of its magic. |
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 | Westerfeld, Scott |
| The Secret Hour |
| Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess. |
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